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Every year hundreds of thousands of Australians help clean up their local environment on Clean Up Australia Day. As part of the programme, the National Organizing Committee also promotes a Schools' Clean Up Day to allow students the opportunity to participate in Clean Up Australia as part of a school activity. Following up our successful participation in 2007, Happy Valley School once again took part in this worthwhile programme during Week 6 of Term 1. The environment enjoys a high profile in our school's curriculum and our students are encourage to adopt positive measures to help protect and preserve our delicate environment. Clean Up Day is an ideal way for students of all ages to learn about how to make a real difference in their local community by reducing the impact of waste in their immediate surroundings.
So, on Monday 3rd March, our students and staff cleaned up our part of Australia. Year 1/2 classes went all over the oval and Reception/Yr 1 classes helped around the front of the school. Year 5/6 classes went along Greenbriar Road and Year 3/4 classes worked throughout the Reserve. The Year 6/7 classes cleaned up along Education Road. It is amazing how much rubbish had blown into and out of our school. The Reserve was full of recess and lunch type wrappings but some of the rubbish found in the front and along the side of the school seemed to have blown in from the surrounding streets. Students from T5 even dragged up a complete but rusty shopping trolley and a very bald tyre from the reserve. Lyn Smart's children found all sorts of rubbish, including a large sheet of iron.
The most common items were muesli bar wrappers, chip packets, "Dipper" packets and the coverings from the straws on fruit box drink containers. There was also quite a lot of polystyrene foam found. Students piled all the rubbish they had collected onto the basketball courts. While there wasn't a huge pile when we finished, it was significant, and our community is now a cleaner and neater place to be. Well done to our fabulous students for all their persistence and hard work. Also a special thank you to our wonderful staff for all their assistance and particularly to Helen Whisson for co-ordinating the school's participation in this year's clean up. Well done, everyone!
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